Please stop the LIVE PET SALES or TRADING of any kind!

The only Acceptable Alternative on Craigslist should be a "Pet Search" to find Local resources of Animal Rescues and Shelters so the adoption process is safe for the animals.

Letter to

Jim Buckmaster

Allan Rudick

Craig Newmark

and 7 others

Geoff Fleming

Mindy Galoob

Press

Mayor Edwin M. Lee

KCBS News

AP,Tim Reiterman

SF SPCA

The only Acceptable Alternative on Craigslist should be a "Pet Search" to find Local resources of Animal Rescues and Shelters so the adoption process is safe for the animals.

Please stop the LIVE PET SALES or TRADING of any kind!

The only Acceptable Alternative on Craigslist should be a "Pet Search" to find Local resources of Animal Rescues and Shelters so the adoption process is safe for the animals.

Reaching every Major City in the U.S. Craigslist continues to allow ads for Live Animals to be posted, "free to a good home: or 'small re-home fee" because they no longer want the animal; however in our opinion the majority of these ads are placed by Bad Breeders and mostly Backyard Rabbit Breeders. (See the photo of Rabbits laying over deplorable piles of Feces & Urine which put off Toxic Fumes)

No matter a few good intentions or good homes, we believe these postings are unethical, support animal neglect and cruelty, contribute to our over full shelters as well as provide easy access for animals to be abused and killed by predators.

Statistics show there’s a big market in selling pets to laboratories that perform experiments on animals. "Bunchers" gather free pets until they have enough for a trip to a Class B Dealer who is licensed by the USDA to sell animals from “random sources” for research. Random sources include strays, stolen pets, seized shelter animals, animals purchased at flea markets–and pets found through “Free to good home” ads. Bunchers will sell the free animals they obtain for $25. apiece to Class B. Dealers.

Free or cheap animals are taken to “blood” fighting dogs — to train them how to kill. This can be dogs, cats or rabbits, a larger dog’s muzzle will be duct-taped shut so that he can’t bite back, and the fighting dog will gain confidence in killing a dog larger than he is.

Free or cheap smaller animals like rats, mice, gerbils, kittens and rabbits are “adopted” by owners of large snakes, who feed the baby animals Alive to their reptile.

Purebred dogs offered “free to a good home” are often “adopted” by puppy mill owners, who use the animals for “breeding stock”.